On 8 Jan 2009, at 05:48, Erika Meyer wrote: > Joel D Canfield wrote: >> >> is there something out there that's challenging without overwhelming, >> and has the strategy and discovery aspects but isn't a war game? > Spore? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(game) > > I've only played the iPhone version but my daughter appears to know > everything about the full version and it's not a war game although > there > is competition involved. And at the other extreme: http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defcon_(video_game) It's a war game. And indeed a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Cheers Martin -- > Spammers: Send me email -> yumyum at easyweb.co.uk to train my filter > http://dspam.nuclearelephant.com/